Chapter 11 - Part Two

Question 1

define assimilation:

Answer 1

allows the infant to use existing schemas to organize and interpret new stimuli and respond accordingly.

Question 2

define accommodation:

Answer 2

changing yourself to fit a new experience.

Question 3

sensorimotor stage:

Answer 3

Birth - Age 2.

begins using ability to SENSE and ability to MOVE.

Question 4

pre-operational stage:

Answer 4

Age 2 - 7.

able to think about objects and events that are not immediately present.
They can imitate actions that occurred in the past.

Question 5

concrete operational stage:

Answer 5

Age 7 - 11.

reason logically, length/width/volume/time, simple math, classify object’s properties.

Question 6

formal operational stage:

Answer 6

Age 11 - 12.

“what would happen if…?” abstract thinking.

Question 7

object permanence:

Answer 7

Out of sight is out of mind. Infants don’t have this yet, they think things disappear!

Question 8

centration:

Answer 8

tendency to focus on just one property of an object.

Question 9

conservation:

Answer 9

principle that certain properties of objects remain the same even when their appearance changes.

Question 10

egocentrism:

Answer 10

inability to take another’s viewpoint.

Question 11

animism:

Answer 11

belief that all things are living.

Question 12

mental representations:

Answer 12

mental images that represent one’s perceptions of reality.

Question 13

zone of proximal development:

Answer 13

range of skills that a child can learn with the assistance of parents, teachers, or other adults.